Nextdoor’s #ThankANeighbor Campaign Celebrates Neighborly Kindness

Celebrate National Gratitude Month and let your neighbors know how much you value them.

Elaine of Bakersfield CA recently shared a touching moment with her local community via Nextdoor.

She posted a clip showing her grandfather struggling with his garbage can on the street. A neighbor and her child stopped to help him.

Elaine’s gratitude note, which received almost 5,000 responses from her community, stated: “Our family wishes to thank this gentleman, and his adorable little boy, for helping our grandpa!”

Nextdoor is a global community of neighbors who use it to help each other, build relationships, and do things together.

Nextdoor now offers a new feature that encourages positive connections between neighbors: #ThankANeighbor.

#ThankANeighbor allows neighbors to recognize those who make a difference in their community.

Nextdoor makes it easy to identify kind neighbors.

#ThankANeighbor is a prompt that encourages you to recognize the acts of kindness in your community.

You can choose a topic for your post.

• Thank you
• Act of Kindness
• I was helped
• Generous
• Friendly

When selecting #ThankANeighbor from the post creator on Nextdoor’s website, neighbors are able to add the name of a person or group that they wish to acknowledge and share the message that inspired their gratitude and appreciation.

Leo of San Francisco, CA a beloved UPS Driver in his community, informed his Nextdoor neighbors that he was going to be away for his big birthday. One of his neighbors decided he wanted to do something extra special for him.

Leo was honored by a neighbor who, upon learning of his upcoming milestone 60th birthday, made a custom cake that took hours to make.

Leo wrote: “It is official.” “I want to thank Candice for this beautiful cake.”

The impact of small acts of kindness is huge.

Give your neighbors a shoutout like Elaine and Leo.

We encourage you to use #ThankANeighbor to share kindness and neighborly connections in your community.